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Make a set of numbers that use all the digits from 1 to 9, once and once only. Add them up. The result is divisible by 9. Add each of the digits in the new number. What is their sum? Now try some other possibilities for yourself!
DOTS Division
Take any pair of two digit numbers x=ab and y=cd where, without loss of generality, ab > cd . Form two 4 digit numbers r=abcd and s=cdab and calculate: {r^2 - s^2} /{x^2 - y^2}.
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Ben, Jack and Emma were playing a game with a box of $40$ counters - they were not using all of them.
They each had a small pile of counters in front of them.
All at the same time, Ben passed a third of his counters to Jack, Jack passed a quarter of his counters to Emma, and Emma passed a fifth of her counters to Ben.
They all passed on more than one counter.
After this they all had the same number of counters.
How many could each of them have started with?
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